Silva Method and the Ultimate Mind

Barbara Ehrenreich presented her new book Bright-Sided on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. She talked about the subtitle of this book, “How the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America”. Ms. Ehrenreich explained that she became disillusioned by the mantras of positive thinkers around her while she was fighting breast cancer. She further believes that all of our troubles today in the financial and job markets exist because people were and are still using positive thinking in order to make believe that all is fine and dandy.

She became skeptic about the whole process and saw only a grain of sand in the realm of possibilities. Ms. Ehrenreich probably never heard of the verified and tested results that Dr. Carl Simonton has had from using the Silva Method and mind techniques to cure people from cancer as a reputed oncologist. It is a proven fact that scientists and doctors now acknowledge what we’ve known for years using the Silva Method. And it’s not coming just from doctors that use and teach the Silva Method techniques like Drs. Laszlo Domjan, Rosa Rivas or Aretoulla Fullam.

What’s true though is that we, practitioners and instructors of the Silva Method, don’t advertise enough the results that are produced by using the Silva Method techniques in our daily lives whether it is for health, business or personal benefits. But these results do exist and they are not delusions in any way.

I am posting this clip because it is important to know what some people, like Ms. Ehrenreich, will write or do to present their limited and subjective picture of their encounters with mind techniques.

In conclusion, I disclose that conforming to the new FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, FTC 16 C.F.R. Part 255, I am not receiving a penny from Ms. Ehrenreich for posting this opinion.

Overweight women’s self-esteem plummets when they view photographs of models of any size, according to a new study in Journal of Consumer Research. And underweight women’s esteem increases, regardless of models’ size.

Authors Dirk Smeesters (Erasmus University, the Netherlands), Thomas Mussweiler (University of Cologne, Germany), and Naomi Mandel (Arizona State University) researched the ways individuals with different body mass indexes (BMIs) felt when they were exposed to thin or heavy media models.

“Our research confirms earlier research that found that normal body mass index (BMI) females’ self-esteem can shift upwards or downwards depending on the model they are exposed to,” the authors write. “Normal BMI females (with BMIs between 18.5 and 25) have higher levels of self-esteem when exposed to moderately thin models (because they feel similar to these models) and extremely heavy models (because they feel dissimilar to these models). However, they have lower levels of self-esteem when exposed to moderately heavy models (because they feel similar) and extremely thin models (because they feel dissimilar).”

Read more about Self-Esteem here

(Via Medical News Today.)

ScienceDaily (Oct.11, 2009)

When it comes to religion, believers and nonbelievers appear to think very differently. But at the level of the brain, is believing in God different from believing that the sun is a star or that 4 is an even number?

While religious faith remains one of the most significant features of human life, little is known about its relationship to ordinary belief. Nor is it known whether religious believers differ from nonbelievers in how they evaluate statements of fact.

In the first neuro-imaging study to systematically compare religious faith with ordinary cognition, UCLA and University of Southern California researchers have found that while the human brain responds very differently to religious and nonreligious propositions, the process of believing or disbelieving a statement, whether religious or not, seems to be governed by the same areas in the brain.
The study also found that devout Christians and nonbelievers use the same brain regions to judge the truth of religious and nonreligious propositions. The results, the study authors say, represent a critical advance in the psychology of religion. The paper appears Sept. 30 in the journal PLoS One.

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(Via ScienceDaily.)

Researchers have found that they can make people move in slow motion by boosting one type of brain wave. The findings offer some of the first proof that brain waves can have a direct influence on behavior, according to the researchers, who report their findings online on October 1 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

“At last we have some direct experimental proof that brain waves influence behavior in humans, in this case how fast a movement is performed,” said Peter Brown of University College London. “The implication is that it is not just how active brain cells are that is important, but also how they couple their activity into patterns like beta activity.”

There are many types of brain waves, distinguished by their frequency and location, Brown explained. In the new study, the researchers injected a small electrical current into the brain through the scalps of fourteen people while the participants manipulated the position of a spot on a computer screen as quickly as they could with a joystick.

The electrical current used increased normal beta activity, a wave that earlier studies linked to sustained muscle activities, such as holding a book. Beta activity drops before people make a move.

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(Via Medical News Today.)

Research suggests Hippocrates’ holistic view of health and illness was right; mind does matter when it comes to health and healing. Nurse researchers and clinicians at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) and the Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) share that view and are working at this mind-body intersection. They are exploring how to prevent the damage excessive stress can do to a young child’s development and how the mind can help speed or slow healing and help control pain. And they’re helping nurses recognize and recover from their own stress-induced behavioral problems.

Key Ingredient to Growing Healthy Kids under Stress: Active Parenting

JHUSON researcher and professor Deborah Gross, DNSc, RN, FAAN, knows unrelenting stress hurts. For young children, that hurt can last a lifetime. Stress causes excessive secretion of the brain’s “fight-flight” hormone, cortisol, that can damage a child’s growing body and brain. It’s a hurt she’s working to help stop. Consistent with a recent Institute of Medicine report, she has found that some behavioral disorders in young people are preventable, particularly if resilience is taught and risk factors for stress are reduced. Among the foremost stressors are factors like poverty and unemployment, community violence and family discord facts of life for millions of children across the country. Through her research, Gross has identified a key protective factor that can help reduce the effects of these stressors: parenting. “Parents are a child’s entire world,” notes Gross. “If parents are preoccupied, or emotionally or physically absent, their child loses out.” When parents don’t engage their child early and often, brain development related to language and learning may be slowed. If a child doesn’t feel safe and protected, the drive toward exploration and to answer the question “what happens if…?” may be lost.

Read more about Mind Matters In Promoting Health here.

(Via Medical News Today.)

Our country is fighting to get a decent healthcare system where people would be cured for all their ailments without expecting foreclosure.

So the right and some of the left teamed up (thanks Senator Nelson, you can forget my vote next time) to come up with their plan to provide all people healthcare.

Political cartoonist, Pat Bagley summed up the confusing plan from the GOP with this picture:

So what choice do you have? How about trying the Silva Method new CD set, Silva Mind Body Healing. Click below for more info.